Midnight in Paris

Its achingly familiar in its exploration of what seems to the seniors like a final dash toward adulthood and its accompanying freedoms. ( Read More )

Gil, it seems, suffers from something Allen calls Golden Age thinking, an ineffable ache for a time and place hes never known. ( Read More )

Kimberley Jones

Its not all strictly la vie en rose: A tentative love affair between Gil and the Twenties stuck muse played by Marion Cotillard pokes along Allens women are either too soft or too hard, never just right and its easy to anticipate the films dramatic beats. ( Read More )

Dave Calhoun

Allen aims for mild surprise and amusement rather than anything more heady.Its all very recognisable but not tired, and the films lightly played time travelling element gives Midnight in Paris a hint of boldness lacking in too many of Allens recent films. ( Read More )

On a certain level it is a familiar Allen concoction of smart urbane laughs that lacks real intellectual depth, but Midnight In Paris delivers easy warmth and is a sweetly engaging Cannes opening night film. ( Read More )